Asian Para Games 2026: Mona Agarwal Wins Second Gold With World Record
Indian para shooter Mona Agarwal won her second gold medal at the Asian Para Games 2026 on Friday, setting a world record in the women’s 50m rifle 3 Positions SH1 final in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
Mona scored 357.5 points to finish 3.8 points ahead of China’s Cuiping Zhang, who took silver. Avani Lekhara, the other Indian in the final, finished fourth after losing ground in the standing series.
Mona had earlier won gold in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event on the opening day of the Games. She scored 250 after the seventh series, setting an Asian Para Games record and surpassing Avani’s previous mark of 249.6, set at the 2023 Hangzhou edition. Avani took silver, giving India a one-two finish in the event.
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INDIA ADDS MEDALS ACROSS DISCIPLINES
India enjoyed a productive Day 5, adding medals across para badminton, archery, athletics and table tennis.
In para badminton, Nitesh Kumar won gold in the men’s singles SL3 final, while Pramod Bhagat took silver. Naveen Sivakumar claimed gold in the men’s singles SL4 event after defeating Indonesia’s Fredy Setiawan in the final.
In para archery, Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi won gold in the men’s recurve doubles event. Sandeep claimed gold in the men’s 400m T64 final, with Ajay Kumar taking bronze. Haney also won gold in the men’s javelin throw F37/38 final.
India collected silver medals through Thulasimathi Murugesan in women’s singles SU5, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan in women’s singles SH6, Pooja Jatyan and Bhawna Choudhary in women’s recurve doubles, Parmod Bijarnia in men’s 1500m T46 and Nimisha Suresh in women’s long jump T47. Jehan Madan and Shubham Wadhwa won bronze in men’s doubles para table tennis MD4.
INDIA EYES BEST-EVER MEDAL HAUL
India had won 103 medals—27 gold, 33 silver and 43 bronze—and stood fourth in the standings at the time of writing. China led the table with 354 medals.
India is aiming to surpass its best-ever Asian Para Games tally of 111 medals, achieved at the 2023 Hangzhou edition, as competition continues in Aichi-Nagoya.
With inputs from ANI